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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
    09-OJC-birkat-8422.jpg
  • Headline on the Evening Standard Newspaper saying that Jeremy Corbyn has yet to apologise for anti-Semitism within the Labour party following his interview on the BBC the previous day in which he was given the opportunity to apologise, but failed to do so in London, England, United Kingdom. He has in the past apologised for his partys record on anti-Semitic behaviour, but not on this occasion, possibly due to the pressurised questioning he was receiving from Andrew Neil. Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite.
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  • Headline on the Evening Standard Newspaper saying that Jeremy Corbyn has yet to apologise for anti-Semitism within the Labour party following his interview on the BBC the previous day in which he was given the opportunity to apologise, but failed to do so in London, England, United Kingdom. He has in the past apologised for his partys record on anti-Semitic behaviour, but not on this occasion, possibly due to the pressurised questioning he was receiving from Andrew Neil. Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestB.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestJ.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20110821orthodox jews protestI.jpg
  • Rabbis for Palestine, an Orthodox Jewish human rights organisation demonstrate in central London Al-Quds Day in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and mistreatment. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Jewish men, Muslim ladies with UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
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  • Jewish men, Muslim ladies with UK Met police officers who guard a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regents Park, London, England.
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  • A woman taking a picture inside the Holocaust memorial, a memorial on 11th October 2019 in Berlin, Germany to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of 2,711 concrete slabs  covering a 19,000-square-metre site arranged in a grid pattern. Berlin. Germany.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • 13 year-old Adam leader dances with a girl at his Bar Mitzvah, a lavish party in Borehamwood, on 14th October 2001, in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and Adam can be seen with the arms of a young lady while a pair of hands reach around the back of his mother left.
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  • On the first day of the state visit by US President Donald Trump, two young Jewish men wait along The Mall by the US flag on 3rd June 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • The mother of a young 13 year-old Jewish boy helps celebrate his coming-of-age at his bar mitzvah party, on 12th February 2001, in London, England.
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  • The friends of a young 13 year-old Jewish boy help celebrate his coming-of-age at his bar bar mitzvah party, on 12th February 2001, in London, England.
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  • Hassidic Jewish couple at the South Bank on a day out, London, UK.
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  • Hassidic Jewish men walking over Westminster Bridge on a day out, London, UK.
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  • Two orthodox Jewish men with the statue of King Richard 1st while visiting the exterior of Britain's parliament in Westminster, London. Richard Coeur de Lion is a Grade II listed equestrian statue of the 12th-century English monarch Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, who reigned from 1189–99. It stands on a granite pedestal in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster, facing south towards the entrance to the House of Lords. It was created by Baron Carlo Marochetti,
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  • Visitors standing beneath panels with the faces of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, read the stories and history of Nazi anti-Semitism, in central Berlin, Germany. At first, these concentrations camps were meant to hold political prisoners; however, by the beginning of World War II, these concentration camps had transformed and expanded in order to house vast numbers of non-political prisoners whom the Nazis exploited through forced labor. Many concentration camp prisoners died from the horrible living conditions or from being literally worked to death. It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill an estimated 11 million people.
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  • An exhibition panel in the Holocaust museum and memorial, showing only some of the 500 Nazi concentration and labour camps, ghettos and the sites of mass shootings across Europe and Africa during the second world war. At first, these concentrations camps were meant to hold political prisoners; however, by the beginning of World War II, these concentration camps had transformed and expanded in order to house vast numbers of non-political prisoners whom the Nazis exploited through forced labor. Many concentration camp prisoners died from the horrible living conditions or from being literally worked to death. It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill an estimated 11 million people.
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  • Stained glass showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
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  • Stained glass showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
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  • An outdoor exhibition panel showing a dead prisoner during the Todesmarsch (Death March) from Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen02-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • On the first day of the state visit by US President Donald Trump, two young Jewish men wait along The Mall by the US flag on 3rd June 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • A young child is allowed by an unseen parent to play  unknowingly on the memorial for Jewish Kinder Transportees at Liverpool Street mainline Station in the City of London. The Kindertransport is a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.
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  • During the festival of Purim a scuffle breaks out between the Neturei Karta and Zionist Jews as they try to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Religious Jews praying at the Western ('Wailing') Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man with the help of a pupil, from the Bobov School, light a torch. The torch will be used to set alight the Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground.  Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • The field of stelae of the outdoor Holocaust Memorial, a reminder of Jewish persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe during the second world war. U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's controversial design was chosen as a fitting tribute to the Jews that died before and during World War II as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate them. Eisenman's design is quite unique and has drawn both praise and criticism. Occupying about 205,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) of space near the Brandenburg Gate and just a short distance from where the ruins of Hitler's bunker is buried, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial is made up of 2,711 gray stone slabs that bear no markings, such as names or dates. It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill an estimated 11 million people.
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  • Shabbat is the weekly day of rest for Orthodox Jews; it lasts from sunset on a Friday to 1 hour past sunset on Saturday. The women of the household mark the beginning the Sabbath by lighting the candles and saying prayers. All food for the 3 meals of Shabbat are prepared in advance as no work can be done on Shabbat.
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  • A member of the Neturei Karta demonstrates how he was punched to a community police officer as they were stopped trying to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London during the festival of Purim. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School watch their Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
    _E6A0254.jpg
  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
    _E6A0248.jpg
  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill light candles at the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill pray outside the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov School enjoy an ice cream while watching their Lag B’Omer bonfire being put out by local fire fighters after it became out of control. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish girls play on a bouncy castle at a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Women and Men are kept separate at all times including children, they have separate play area’s. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Orthodox Jewish schoolboys from the Bobov school celebrate Lag B’Omer with a bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • A Sabbath prayer meeting being held outside a Stamford Hill home by ultra orthodox Hassidic Jews during the coronavirus pandemic on 25th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus has hit Britain’s Orthodox Jewish community disproportionately hard, with hundreds in the  tested positive for the coronavirus. Police have become aware of a number of religious meetings like this in the Haredi community who are not taking the restrictions seriously enough and could be endangering themselves and wider society.
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  • Orthodox Jewish school boys from the Bobov school watching the Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Two men watch their daughters on a fair ground ride in Springfield Park Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Women and Men are kept separate at all times including children, girls and boys take it in turns to go on the rides. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man walking down Portland Avenue past a Volvo and a sign for the local polling station taped to a tree.  The polling station for the local government elections of May 2006 was in Stamford Hill library.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men belonging the Bobov Hasidism during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • Mr Rudzinski, a holocaust survivor living in Stamford Hill who is very open about what life was like when he was captured by the Nazi’s as a young boy in Germany.
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  • A religious Jew praying at the Western ('Wailing') Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A religious Jew praying at the Western ('Wailing') Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A religious Jew praying at the Western ('Wailing') Wall, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • On the 3rd birthday of an Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut in a ceremony called an Upsherin leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. Passing a mirror in his hallway this is the first moment he ever sees himself with short hair and a kippah on his head. A kippah is said to be ‘A blessing on the head’ and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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  • In Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom, on the 3rd birthday of a Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. His Grandfather then places a kippah on his head for the first ever time. A kippah is said to be ‘A blessing on the head’ and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. He will now begin to learn the Torah.
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  • On the 3rd birthday of a Orthodox Jewish boy he has his first ever hair cut leaving his peyos (sideburns) to grow. His Grandfather then places a kippah on his head for the first ever time. A kippah is said to be ‘A blessing on the head’ and is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew. With both his Grandfathers either side he now begins to learn the Alpha bet so he can read the Torah.
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  • Two old friends greet and share a joke with each other in the Mahane Yahuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A portrait of a man with a Star of David necklace at Dr. Shakshouka, a kosher Tripolitanian restaurant in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • When a new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) is completed after years of work it is carried in a big community parade to synagogue. Rabbis and leaders young and old from the Ashkenazi Nitra group take it turns to carry the decorated scrolls to their Shul on Clapton Common, Stamford Hill. Members of the community touch and kiss the scrolls as they pass.
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  • Rabbi Yisrael Oriel Ben Moshe Shlomo, an African Rabbi from Cameroon who converted to Judaism 20 years ago. He prays at the Persian Hebrew congregation and the Moroccan ‘Hida’ Synagogue and Bet Midrash on East Bank, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • A settlement sits on top of a hill on the road to Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
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  • Sunrise over the old city of Nablus, West Bank, Palestine after the usual night of bombings and gun fights.
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  • A man and women walk along a street in the Old City of Jerusalem on 30th March 2016 in Jerusalem, West Bank.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man in traditional clothes looks through a vandalised and smashed window in a bus shelter on the A20 Road in Stamford Hill, London, England.
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  • Boys play football on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • A  waitress sets the table at the <br />
Carmello Bistro, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • In a Stamford Hill Skwer synagogue Jewish men watch the Skwer Rebbe visiting from New York carry the new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) into the Shul. Hundreds of men and women gathered to see the event take place.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong, its common to see young children smoking cigarettes on the streets.
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boys preparing to pray by wrapping the leather strap of his Tefillin around his arm and a Tallit (prayer shawl) around his shoulders.  The arm-Tefillin, is worn on the upper arm, while the head-Tefillin, is placed above the forehead. They serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. According to Jewish Law, they should be worn during weekday Morning Prayer services.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer shows off the quality of one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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  • Woman pray in Synagogue from behind a screen called a Mechitza.  Like all Orthodox synagogues woman pray separately to men. In the Viznitz Synagogue (pictured) in Stamford Hill, London women pray from upstairs on a balcony and behind screens (Mechitza).
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  • Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam (white beard). Rebbe and current spiritual leader of the Klausenberger dynasty of Netanya, Israel arrives at the Viznitz Synagogue (their own is too small) to talk to his followers in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • Watched by the grand mother Nihad Qasqas, the well baby nurse for the UHWC and Safa Qasqas the well baby nurse for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) take blood samples for testing from a 2 week old baby girl. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin, PRCS and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
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  • Rabbi Herschel Gluck eating a takeaway meal in his Sukkah during the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. In honor of the children of Israel in the wilderness, men dwell in temporary shelters. This shelter is called a Sukkah it has at least three sides and a partially open roof covered with greenery.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men dance to music in a driveway of a wealthy man of the area whilst waiting to gain access to the household. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.  Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • At the end of the Purim festival and 18 minutes before the beginning of Shabbat the candles are lit in the synagogue and everyone puts their hands toward the main candle to accept the sanctity of Shabbat. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest and lasts from sunset on Friday night until 1 hour after sunset on Saturday. No work is allowed at all during Shabbat.
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  • Orthodox Jewish children playing in the street of Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.  All the children play regularly together, having bike races and playing football. There is a real sense of a community, some mothers are out with their younger children keeping an eye on goings on.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish boy climbing on a fence in front of a block of flats with open windows in Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • In a communal garden of a Stamford Hill block of flats 3 young Orthodox Jewish boys and one Orthodox Jewish girl collect conkers from the ground and put them into plastic bags.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man leaves a polling station after voting in the General Election in Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom on 12th December 2019.
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  • A Jewish gentleman, bus stop graffiti and an ad for the new Aardman Animations new release Early Man, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Rabbi Abraham Pinter chatted to Shiraz Kothia while a prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
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  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Rabbi Abraham Pinter chatted to Shiraz Kothia while a prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
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  • Two days after the London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attack, Londoners from all faiths and religions attended a vigil outside City Hall, on Monday 5th June 2017, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Rabbi Abraham Pinter chatted to Shiraz Kothia while a prominent armed police presence guarded dignitaries and the public who came to the Southbank to remember the seven killed and many others left with life-changing injuries. The British spirit of defiance and to carry on with every day life, endures.
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